“The Birth of an Icon: How the Forbidden Fruit became an Apple” Thursday, 15 March, 2018 4:00 pm at the History Department conference room in 5 Keene-Flint Hall Profess or Azzan Yadin-Israel (Rutgers University, Jewish Studies and Classics) Though we often assume Adam and Eve sinned by eating an apple, the Book of Genesis does […]
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THE CENTER FOR GLOBAL ISLAMIC STUDIES, IN COOPERATION WITH THE CENTER FOR AFRICAN STUDIES PRESENTS: DR. HATSUKI AISHIMA “PUBLIC CULTURE AND ISLAM IN MODERN EGYPT: MEDIA, INTELLECTUALS AND SOCIETY” Tuesday, November 28th, 2017; 3:30PM 404 Grinter Hall Abstract: Hatsuki Aishima explores what it means to be “cultured” and “middle class” for Egyptian Muslims, which, as […]
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Religion has always been with us. And it isn’t going away. Throughout history, it has expressed the deepest questions human beings can ask, and it has taken a central place in the lives of virtually all civilizations and cultures. Indeed, even today, we find religion everywhere we turn. In order to illustrate how relevant religion is […]